You know what's so fetch? A gay character who isn't merely a fashion-crazy, Broadway-worshipping sass master. A gay character who is more than simply an accessory. A true-to-life "Gay Best Friend." So, when Tanner Daniels [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service A PASSIONATE POLITICAL MOMENT: A crowd of LGBT supporters gave President Obama a rousing welcome in New York Tuesday night, with standing ovations and applause that often drowned out [...]
Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn is still figuring out what it means to be a gay Mormon. Not just how both modifiers can exist simultaneously, but if it's even possible that they do. The alt [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service OBAMA PREPS EXECUTIVE ORDER: The White House indicated Monday that President Obama has "directed his staff" to prepare an executive order to prohibit federal contractors from discriminating against employees [...]
BTL Staff WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama, responding to years of pressure from national LGBT organizations, signed an executive order Monday barring federal contractors from discrimination against LGBT employees. "This is a major step [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service TEST VOTE TODAY ON NOMINATION: The U.S. Senate will hold a vote today on whether to proceed with consideration of Darrin Gayles, President ObamaÕs nominee to a U.S. district [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service WISCONSIN HEARING TODAY: U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb will hold a hearing this afternoon to determine how to word her final injunction against Wisconsin's ban on same-sex couples [...]
Christin Howard sustained multiple injuries, including a fractured finger. (Photo courtesy of Christin Howard DETROIT - In this social media obsessed world we live in, there's already a hashtag for it: #justiceforchonglee. It, in [...]
It will be "anchors aweigh" when guests set sail on Saturday, June 21 for a Detroit River cruise and tea dance aboard the Diamond Belle, a mini-ship that was built in 1958 and operated as [...]
A lesbian couple that prompted the legal battle over same-sex marriage and adoption rights in Michigan will be coming to Holland on June 28 to help celebrate the second outdoor and 10th annual Holland Area [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus Downtown Lansing's Old Town district plays host to "celestial" events this June with the Festivals of the Sun and Moon. Hosted by I Love Old Town, each festival plays tribute to [...]
Across 1 "Take it off!" 6 Lahr of "The Wizard of Oz" 10 Kid-lit elephant 15 ___ donna 16 Saudi or Iraqi 17 Speed skater Ohno 18 Glenn Close's " ___ Attraction" 19 Lorca's "but" [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman Partners in life and business: Kim Clark and David Fink, owners of The Acorn Theater in Three Oaks. Photo: Courtesy of David Fink Partners in life and business: David Fink [...]
By Carolyn Hayes "Cabaret" continues at Farmers Alley Theatre through June 29. Photo: Farmers Alley The Germans of the early 1930s had suffered war (and the loss thereof) as well as economic desperation; they [...]
By Bridgette M. Redman "The Dixie Swim Club" is now playing at The Dio - Dining & Entertainment in Pinckney. Photo: The Dio Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten have created a franchise [...]
AJ Trager BTL photos: Jenna Belevender DETROIT- LGBT people and allies took Hart Plaza, made it Prideful and brought the party to the Motor City this weekend for the 43rd Annual Motor City Pride [...]
TorJuan Sanders and his partner Decembur Jaymes were allegedly harassed by a Detroit Medical Center security officer June 3. BTL photo: Jason Michael DETROIT - It was almost 3 a.m. on June 3. Tor'Juan [...]
By Jim Larkin It wasn't a college degree or even a doctorate that led Tim Retzloff to compose his dissertation on gay life in metro Detroit from 1945-85, but rather his passion to write the [...]
By Paulette Niemiec Julie Bondy spoke in favor of the ordinance and said her partner could not be there tonight for fear of being identified and risk losing her job. An ordinance to amend [...]
AJ Trager DETROIT -Sunday at Motor City Pride, a 20-year-old man fell victim to a hate crime for being a member of the LGBT community, according to reports by WXYZ. Between The Lines joins the [...]
By AJ Trager TROY - Central Woodward Christian Church (CWCC) will host Welcoming Diversity, a one-night event on June 21 showcasing two photography exhibits by Family Diversity Projects as well as a performance by The [...]
Bill's Beer Garden will be hosting "Equality on Tap!" in support of the Jim Toy Community Center this Thursday. The new Ann Arbor beer garden will generously donate $1 of every beer sold to JTCC, [...]
DETROIT - A week after a federal judge ruled that he could not sue the city of Detroit outside of bankruptcy court, a former high school student has filed a lawsuit against former Detroit City [...]
Logan's Roadhouse will be supporting the LBGTQ community of metro Detroit every first Thursday for the rest of the year in their "Raising the Steaks" effort. In support of Ferndale's LGBT community and resource center, [...]
By Lisa Keen {URL Keen News Service http://keennewsservice.com/} In a battle she characterized as "very personal" and "about me," Annise Parker, the openly gay mayor of the fourth most populous city in the United States, [...]
By Lisa Keen {URL Keen News Service http://keennewsservice.com/} June is the final month of the U.S. Supreme Court's current session and, while anticipation is not nearly so great this year for the LGBT community as [...]
By Lisa Keen {URL Keen News Service http://keennewsservice.com/} A federal district court judge on June 3 dismissed most of a lawsuit by the National Organization for Marriage that claimed an employee of the U.S. Internal [...]
By BTL Staff The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll released today on same-sex marriage, shows most Americans overall, 56 percent, support allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, not significantly different from the all-time high, [...]
If there's one thing middle school students don't need it's sex education. Because sex is icky and makes some people uncomfortable. It also makes some people gay. At least that's the missionary position being taken [...]
Speaking of contemporary bad times, global warming, world conflicts, trouble and turmoil, epidemics, on-going territorial elbowing - sound all too familiar? - there's large-scale European precedent dating back 700 years. Curiously, the climactic catastrophe of [...]
By Lori Lamerand On the day that he started his first real job, W. got a call from his college partner who had just tested positive for HIV. W. needed to get tested. The news [...]
English dance prodigy Disclosure isn't simply aware that club music is steeped in queer culture - they're inspired by it. The Grammy-nominated duo, Howard and Guy Lawrence, is still lighting up the charts with songs [...]
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service WISCONSIN ROLLER-COASTER: Tuesday, the Wisconsin Vital Records office said it was not processing the records of marriage licenses obtained by same-sex couples; Wednesday, it said it is. According to [...]
By Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director for Lambda Legal Q: My university's LGBT center was recently approached by a group that said by law we have to carry materials that promote "ex-gay therapy." Is this [...]
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